Monday, September 01, 2008

A Review of Sexless Solitude and Other Poems by Hsu ChiCheng

From “Fear” To “Sexless Solitude” Hsu ChiCheng

A book review about “Sexless Solitude And Other Poems” by Dr. Ram Krishna Singh, India

All kinds of things around the world can be written into poems by poets. For example, there are many themes just as religion, politics, natural world, seasons, journey, sex, and almost human life etc. among poetry collection “Sexless Solitude and Other Poems” of Dr.Ram Krishna Singh. There are the topics as “God, Sex and The World”, “Shiva’s Third Eye”, “God”, “They Call God Loudly”, “I am No Moses”, “I am No Jesus” etc .for religion, there are the topics as “Raindrop”, “Snake”, “Rainbow”, “River’s song”, “From the Winter”, and “The Bee Won’t Return” etc. for natural world, there are the topics as “The dead too are Restless”, “Death”, “Bliss Through Death”, “I want to Sleep”, “Journey”, “Creation”, “Too Painful”, “pain”, “Wisdom”, “Man or Animal”, “Wit and Soul”, and “Passion” etc. for human life. Above all, the creator prepared so many materials for us poets to write. Thanks god!I am glad to read in advance the will be publication of Dr. R. K. Singh’s poetry collection :“Sexless Solitude And Other Poems”. It contains 98pieces of his poems. So many good poems in this book! I enjoy them very much. There are two of them “Sexless Solitude” and “I can’t Hide Fears” which actually penetrate through the whole book. I come to set my opinions.We all human beings always can’t see our future include our age. It’s dim like a man walking in the fog ,or may we say it like a riddle. There are two kinds of men who face the future and the age: fear or no fear. As a fact, all men in fear of the future for it’s uncertain. Dr. R.K. Singh so confess:

The light of my lamp andThe portion of my cup couldn’tLift my soul mired in passionsAnd silence of the morningThe confession couldn’t removeMy anguish of agesNor the tears and cries strengthenFaith, hope, and love-the rockSlips the grip for enemiesWithin don’t halt my bodyGlues to the ground seekingDarkness of the womb and joys……

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In verses I can’t hide fearsMy face I despise, can’t findFreedom from the chemicalsSprayed in the air and the smogOppressing my breath, the sunFails to keep the covenantThe terrors of death are real

He told the truth. The man who said that he’s no fear must be false. No fear of the future and the age must have some courage to face and conquer it. May be “We raise our heads and overlook, expecting another world/ We raise our heads, expecting another spring”, as I wrote in my poem “Reappearance”. It’s a hard course to conquer it. It’s a spirit thing. It taste bitter. However, the body can hardly change or hold by spirit. It must be go wither away. Then, practice Buddhist teachings is needed. When he accomplishes this practice, we call he is the Buddha. A Buddha is sexless as Dr. R.K. Singh described in his poem “Sexless Solitude”:

She dwells on moon beamsI can see her smilingWith wind-chiselled breastIn sexless solitudeHer light is not pricedBut gifted to enlightenThe silver-linings

It’s a higher condition. He walked away from “Fear” to “Sexless Solitude” and finished the practice Buddhist teachings. He is not a vulgar, but a Buddha, a fairy, or in short, a god.

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About Me

Ram Krishna Singh is a university professor whose main fields of
interest consist of Indian English writing, especially poetry, and English for
Specific Purposes, especially for science and technology. He was born on 31
December 1950 in Varanasi, India. Apart from a BA earned in 1970, he gained his
MA in English Literature from Banaras Hindu University in 1972 and Ph D from
Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi, in 1981. He also obtained a Diploma in Russian in
1972. Dr Singh started his career in journalism, as a Compilation Officer in
the District Gazetteers Department, Lucknow, 1973, and a Journalist with the
Press Trust of India, New Delhi, 1973-74. Changing to teaching he became a
Lecturer at the Royal Bhutan Polytechnic, Deothang, Bhutan, 1974-76. Joining
the Indian School of Mines in Dhanbad as a Lecturer from 1976-83, he then rose
to Assistant Professor in 1983 and full Professor and Head of the Institute’s
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences since 1993 to 2011. He is now
Professor of English (HAG).

A reviewer, critic and contemporary poet who writes in Indian English, Dr.
Singh is the author of more than 160 research articles and 175 book reviews. He
has published 39 books, including: Savitri : A Spiritual Epic (Criticism,
1984); My Silence (poems, 1985); Sound and Silence (edited articles on
Krishna Srinivas, 1986); Indian English
Writing : 1981-1985 : Experiments with Expression (ed., 1987, rept. 1991); Using English in Science and Technology (textbook,
1988, rev. and rept, 2000); Recent Indian
English Poets : Expressions and Beliefs (ed. 1992); Two Poets: R.K. Singh (I DO NOT QUESTION) Ujjal Singh Bahri (THE
GRAMMAR OF MY LIFE) (poems, 1994); General
English Practice (textbook, 1995); Anger
in Action : Explorations of Anger in Indian Writing in English (ed.,1997); My Silence and Other Selected Poems :
1974-1994 (poems, 1996); Above the
Earth’s Green (poems, 1997); Psychic
Knot : Search for Tolerance in Indian English Fiction (ed., 1998); New Zealand Literature : Some Recent Trends
(ed.,1998); Every Stone Drop Pebble (haiku,
1999); Multiple-Choice General English
for UPSC Competitive Exams (textbook, 2001); Cover to Cover (poems, 2002). Pacem
in Terris ( haiku, English and Italian, 2003), Communication : Grammar and Composition ( textbook, 2003), Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri : Essays on Love,
Life and Death ( Critical articles, 2005), Teaching English for Specific Purposes : An Evolving Experience (
Research articles and review essays, 2005), Voices
of the Present: Critical Essays on Some Indian English Poets (2006), The River Returns (tanka and haiku
collection, 2006), English as a Second
Language: Experience into Essays (ed. research articles, 2007), English Language Teaching: Some Aspects
Recollected (ed. research articles, 2008), Sexless Solitude and Other Poems (2009), Mechanics of Research Writing (2010), Sense and Silence: Collected Poems (2010), New and Selected Poems Tanka and Haiku (2012), and I Am No Jesus and Other Selected Poems, Tanka and Haiku (2014). His works have been
anthologized in about 160 publications, while his editorial activities extend
to include guest-editing of Language Forum, 1986, 1995, and Creative Forum,
1991, 1997, 1998, besides being co-editor of the latter publication from
1987-90, General Editor of Creative Forum New Poets Series, and service on the
editorial boards of Canopy, Indian Book
Chronicle, Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Reflections, Titiksha,
International Journal of Translation, Poetcrit, Impressions of Eternity (ie),
and SlugFest. He has evaluated about 50
PhD theses from various universities. He has also edited the ISM Newsletter for
about five years.